Guests 2023
Since 2005, Doc Edge is proud to bring the largest number of local and international filmmakers leading documentary experts, funders, commissioners, sales agents, distributors, acquisition managers, co-production partners, festival programmers, and marketplace managers and mentors together in Aotearoa.
This is unparalleled by any other market, festival or screen organisation in New Zealand.
Doc Edge is committed to supporting New Zealand and international filmmakers to realise their projects, learn and network with each other.
Decision Makers

Alex West
Head of Documentary Content
Screen Australia

Andrew Cozens
Marketing Manager
Madman Entertainment NZ

Dana Youngman
Consulting Commissioner
Sky Originals

Heejung Oh
Founder & Producer
Seesaw Pictures

Kathryn Graham
Māori Development Executive
NZ Film Commission

Jude Callen
Documentary Commissioner
TVNZ

Manukaroa Anderson
Head of Content Curation
Whakaata Māori

Roland Löbner
DOK Film Market Coordinator
DOK Leipzig

Rufus Richardson
Documentary Executive
Madman Entertainment

Tareq Ahmed
Director
Dhaka Doc Lab

Vicki Keogh
Senior Director Production ANZ
Warner Bros, Discovery

Ana Saiz
International Sales Agent
Impronta Films

Arran Birchenough
Director of Production (APAC)
Getty Images

Ash Hoyle
Programmer
Sundance Film Festival

Caroline Joll
Senior Legal and Commercial Counsel
Sky Originals

Colette Webber
Senior Sales and Acquisitions Executive
TVF

Fergus Grady
Acquisitions Manager
Limelight Distribution

Gugi Gumilang
Executive Director
In-Docs | Docs By The Sea

Gune Hyong
Executive Producer
EBS Korea

Johanna Smith
Development Executive
NZ Film Commission

Kathy Susca
Director of Content and Operations
The Film Collaborative

Kelly Davis
Associate Head of Funding
NZ On Air

Lauren Valmadre
Industry Manager
Australian International Documentary Conference

Mareva Leu
Director
FIFO

Mathieu Béjot
Director of Strategy and Development
Sunny Side of the Doc

Natasha Gadd
CEO
Australian International Documentary Conference

Natsu Kawakami
Producer
NHK

Orly Ravid
Co-founder and Executive Director
The Film Collaborative

Pamela Martinez
Founder, Head of Sales and Acquisitions
Limonero Films

Ruby Chen
Director
CNEX

Simon Werry
Managing Director
Limelight Distribution

Theresa Navarro
Co-director | Chief Operations Officers
Catapult Films

Jenny Ross
Partnerships Lead
Sky Arts
Speakers

Aaju Peter
Inuit Subject, Lawyer and Story Writer
Twice Colonized

Allyn Robins
Senior Consultant
Brainbox Institute

Austen McCowan
Director & Producer
Long Live My Happy Head

Basil Shadid
Film, Commercial, and Content Producer

Brannavan Gnanalingam
Author and Lawyer

Bruktawit Tigabu
Film, Commercial, and Content Producer

Carol Dysinger
Director
One Bullet

Cieron Cody
Documentary Investment & Development Manager
Screen Australia

David Novack
Director
All Static & Noise

Emile Hertling Peronard
Producer
Twice Colonized

Fanni Fazarkas
Founder, Rumext, Director
Missing 20 Hours

Jason Loftus
Director
Eternal Spring

Joseph Michael
Visual Artist & EHF Fellow

JP Marin
Co-Founder
Distil Australia

Kat Lintott
EHF Fellow, Creative Lead
Evoke, The Luminous

Leanne Pooley
Doc Edge Superhero 2017

Leanne Saunders
Head of Development & Production
NZ Film Commission

Lin Alluna
Director
Twice Colonized

Matthew Metcalfe
Film and Television Producer

Meg Smaker
Director
The UnRedacted

Michael Goldwater
Podcast Director
The Shape of Dialogue

Mladen Ivancic
Chief Operating Officer
NZ Film Commission

Noel Smyth
Director
Gloriavale

Prof. Annie Goldson
Doc Edge Superhero 2023

Ramona Diaz
Director
A Thousand Cuts

Reuben Hamlyn
Co-Director
Another Body

Sophie Compton
Co-Director
Another Body

Stephen Gerard Kelly
Co-Director
In The Shadow of Beirut

Tom Barraclough
Co-Founder, Director
Brainbox Institute